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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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